Note to our friends on the left: John Thune refused to take any sort of sole credit for the committee's decision. He referred to it many times as being a "joint" effort by all of South Dakota's concerned delegation. In short, your talking points are no longer operative. See this laugher from one of the Kos Kidz earlier this week:
Daschle would've likely saved Ellisworth (like he had done in the past), just like ND's two Dems did their part to protect their local economy (whether BRAC is truly justified or not). But Thune argued in 2004 that he would be best positioned to save Ellsworth as a Republican in a GOP-trifecta-led D.C.
Now, he's been made a fool by his own president, has proven his impotence to the SD voters, and has likely lost 6,000 mostly GOP-leaning jobs in western South Dakota.
Not bad for a first-year Senator.
And how does it make you feel that your Sugar Daddy refuses to give Sen. Johnson or Rep. Herseth any credit for the base being kept open, preferring instead to say that "someone" (oh, please) took "pity" on John Thune? I know that if I were a left-winger, and I woke up to that turd floating in my Cheerios, I'd be pissed.
Oh, and Bob Novak? You can shut the hell up, too.
